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t G I ealieny- the Nob! /Lit I •;itn.l-Irt3tlltir the e agreeable neeessi:,• 'of opposing tbept‘esent Motion 4 ansl. it suet had b:.‘ert his opinion Weloie,certaiely nething that bad been said by the NOble . Lord•could . have the effed of altering his determination. it was unpleasant to objea to a motion. of this kind, .be cause the party principally intereated was brought befOre the liodse •by no fault.Tolita ' 9WII. It was u4leasant to ohjeEt to what was aslied, in.. their name though not by them. it...wasunpleastint also because' there* was an idea thid , Where praise was withheld there was at intention to cast blame. Cer tainlyhere there was no room for eny sect) -construc tion as that, for he subscribed' most heartily and elieerfully,to all that had been said of the meritorious, conduct of theartuy and navy in all that had been stone; they had done all that men ought to do'e The inoderation and temper with Which ,they had con cluEted themselves served to mitigate the harshness 'of the enterprize on which they were 'employ( d. It wai certainly right to keep the merits: of the. army and navy distinct from the 'Merits or demerits. of, Mitiisters ; and.to separate the consideration, of the 'order frotn that - dithe ,executive. ,But it wasesot so easy to separate; and keen distin& the nature and 'cliraaer ofthe. service. The tiatnre of the service waS'alsveysone of the indispensable rules by which peblie gratitude was 'Measured. Tip all Military in nalS; there we rebistatices of astreat perSanal merit in the Minutest actions as in the operations on the' largest scale ; iu 'single Ships, in 'Packets, as there skas lately a brilliant exatriple, it! 'actions ot boats. Ih air these cases there was . . as much mirage, as much - zeal, as much Mucli true contenipt of „death as in the . entageriapts of great fieets -and arinies; yet - these cases were trot considered of suflti-. e t cht nia i .:otitude to call for the Thanks of Parliament.' It was also bcyond.a question, that there as greater merit hi effMlrig a jticlicious retreat, before 'a su perior enemy ; than in hazarding a battle under every prospect of defeat. sanction-of the al)« probation of Parliament would be. particularly called kr its such a -case' to , rescue. merit from ignorant censure. Success was no criterion in point of jus tice, but in point of practice it was rand 'it Was' only as -the etnanetiOn of national qxultition, upon great success and great public'serVice, thitthe Thanks of Parliament ought properly to be .regdfded,--We 'should be able to say, this' is a sUbjeet on which every heart gives a, loose to joy; this is the expre,s-- mon of the general feeling, and the triumph of the People. is made manifest by the grateful acknow ledgments of the Legislature. But who could . say that the present was_ a case in which every heart exulted. This was not :a case siroilar. to, aliet in whitth• British troops had conquered the t konquerers, Of the world; where those whtehad assumed, the, titles of.invitacible were met without arty advantage of numbers, man to man; and yielded to,..,the seps« riority of British prowess. That., indeed , was ia • triumph %yeah fifty navies of Denmark. Public feetin-g was not acted upon, but counteracted, by. his I‘Ljesty's Ministers ; but first by. those self elleote4 Judges, who relt nut the impertaoce 9f open- ing new sources ot glory, as was done at Maida e'but •who were tiled with exultation at the opening of , nee. sources of commerce 5 those Judges who ac quitted when the King's Ja.eiges condemned; and conduct was such as to induce .a, guilty ; ., 11;)flieer. to,•say to himself, .€t 00 matter. if the ; sTudgee named by. my. Sovereign condemn me, pre - aided I . am a hero in Lloyd's.';. Any person, however iestly, negatived 4, the Koper, trfl)nual, may say:, " L ‘Rillary etiaer Catila, if. a King loses .a knave wins,- . to here 1i o.s agaitt."--Thus a new trip tves pp 4 and the moan w ho, was letely,conlenned, is put to cominandAhose. who eUhtlenme4. Intu, Noble lio‘/d was . , no doubt, , thoroughly. satisfied of the gel ! , neral exultation of, the Cettetry i ,at the finccess,.efAird Expedition' brit the pain lie. 4114i4yd eipiOsed himself to have felt, arrested , his, assertion; arfd-did Vlore justice to, his disposition and principles. 'Jo feel 'pain rot' \VII* Was Ouse! iladttiss;' . .pre'veci that the jiy.'• 'Ohs. iecomplefee' -It Wai , iiorneWhat like the jay'of . a mate, who; to sdVe the- life Of bon, 'was obliged;: to' have. IttrcUt Off, end'' had . Lim ever' after (Tittle; an'tte very sober' chastided oy that was,-" . Whether:the'cansc of joyin:this case ay' not afterwardi'aft wait' not pre , ' pared to Say. ficeiviitier'stiyetittif the ser; rice done at Copenhavo„wk not One that aceorila , ittgto the vneral,praNce,;thsocb..CeSes,,appearetl,to excite general . eXUltatidn: — Firitla' the 1144 a w 4. 1, ciro tainly a 6pr:that:Ng MajestyVAlittiatirrevishedllie Country to exult. But lie lamonted that . sueh'a invitation had been gi‘eu, where. :.:.ifrOwfor the ne cessity of using force, and sympathy for link berg r -ings`btedglit upon the Danci, wad in the MoUtl . ts.of isle Majesty's. Ministers, and in the leans of the Pritidt people. It was opt merely'a want of pro priety that . I.vas to,becompluittednf in such an cula tiiciuus demonstration, but want .of policy, as we ',nay yet have-: to sutler a severe'perielty from the wrath of an exasperated people, ' It was, doirahle, -certainly, to acknowledge the merits. of tee Army and Navy if that could be done without injury. But "Ilk those ingredients were •wanting which create: ge seeral exultation, and of which that exultation is . the' `test ; 'if tite7Watit . of these ingredients prevent a re .treat, ,bowever meritorioua,, obtaieing the thanks of Parliament, how can those thanks be claithed in tliepref.eat instance. If.ihe case was one in Wadi: ueilher the policy nor the prk.lice of the Country was conformed to ; it neither the success nor the ite e , mt4q(3. * was.ennaixed, be was also pfeparea - t 0 go the' of saying, that as me e. military. "val. Prote . eding, the service was ncsi . ,one en %idea to the thanli. s of'tho House. The Al'iny and ' L lavY did all tile)? could ; but what wais . .,elene clid Mot deserve the thanks ot rho 1-louse. 1 . 16. k Noble "wits unwilling to ghre all the merit to the Offi cers, as he sornetinits seetned.disposed to. do A lest he should take it from the men and again he seemed unwilling to give it all t( i ) the men, 'lest lie 'should takeat from. the Officers.• •.TheeNoble Lord did not know whether to-take it in meal or in malt. Theu the Noble Lord seemed to think the glory belonged to the Transport . and• Vianalling Boards, 'and thus While these Boards' did the service the Army and Navy werethanked. hit fitqqg.out . an Ettiediiam) was certainly a service, but it was a 6ervicealabouri inch. . fluty be performed.: at , POrtineatith cir'Ply 7 service of fitting out add briegilig kYily the paiixl)',Sliii)fi of, die kun - e'llati4re;- Ife :' Grid n64.14461' cif a-Con'ichissionClr 3'mrd• who hi:(1 twee made 4. .Peter „oor -of a Master Attet daet vvbo had nad it' Red Ittbbanet, In other the titles o; giro honoured Commanders had 11 , 0 Vitok- been taken froet the scene et n' slice svese, tee eidow liim alleouea Le Went so ear as te tea), titles of Earl St, Vincent's, Lord Netedn'oritie Nile, i him' hiM to do so, by seaming to imply, that and Lord Duncan of Catuperdown. Writs.'siti)ilar • the . Expedition, W:is undertaken, pot froM a sense lefereece to bernade in the case in . ,qttesticid. Had I which his ,Nlajesty's Ministers enterteined of the any medal been struck to cemmeMorate the service. I high end imoettant service they were rendering Tower Wharf and . Plymouth Dock would crake ! their Country, but becatise it contributed to their eqoally greed and sighifeenet additions to titice e and been advantage, and led to their continuance in offiee, ihr aegmentations of arms, tar e berrels, and lighters i fle left it to the cooler judgineet .of the Right Hone Would come, in amazing,ly to the purppse. The : 'Gentleman himielltesay,whether hereally drought Noble Lord 'said, it had nets been jadged pendent to i this was their motive. With regard to the question bring the British Fleee 164 against thnbetteries of : before the Weise, he thatif the Right Hod. Copenhagen, and that was the reason why the Ships ± Gentleman's objedions to giving thanks in certain were not more a&ively employed ; then camellia i cases were admitted, thel would be very prejudices'! 'Commissioners of Viduallinge then the, extreme - I to the service. He seemed tube of opinion that they dipary preparation, to prevent, the Danes from ; ought to be conferred in no case except inone atilt, being prepared to meet us with adequate resist- utmost exultation and triumph, of, feeling, .unmixed ace, then the 'great amount of the Danish pre ii with a single painful consideration. The Right Ho parations, and then the merit 'of 'the , 'Freespeht •i nourable Gentleman had asserted; that it was high- Board. Thus what the Noble Lord gayer. with i ]y meritorious, by A jedicioni eetreate to secare the one hand he took away . With the other. Go-e I safety of an army eer a navy, but that the House vernment sent a force sufficient to render resistance I had never contemplated such a service as the pro unavailing; and in this principle they.were right; .: peilebjea.df their Thanks. The Eight Hen. Gen then came the difficulties to •be conquered, and 1 tleman seemed to have forgotten the tem of Admi the' resistance's hich it` was such a merit to have 1 ral Cornwallis, who had received the Thinks of Par overcome. Then the Noble Lord said a force had 1 liaivent, not fora viapry, but for a retreat, " for been colleaed which was sufficient to render sue e the ability, judgment, and ..bravery, which he had . cess difficult and doubtful, and this lays the founda- displayed in the presence of a superior fleet of the tion fora compliment to the skill of the Comman. enemy." There were other instances he which that, der. ' It . was not to' be doubted that the zeal of the ! Home had voted their Thanks,. and. which were of, Danish inhabitants led them to do every thing that i a different descriptioe from that to which the Right could be expeaed from them ; but they were not a i Hon. Gentleman was desirous such an honour should force of such a description as an Officer bred to re- ) exclusively belong. The Thanks of Parliament had guitar warfare would take credit to himself for hr.-- I been given to' the Governments of Madras and Bottl ing overcome. He thought it a thing to be depre- bay, for their coriduel in forwarding the views of the Gated, that in the midst of the services everyday ' GovernotsGe.neral ofeledia: The Thanks of 'Parlia, passing; any glory should be taken from the reduce I meet had been gives, to-Lord Hood for the important Lion of Copenhagen'. -Tho fact was, the city Waft re , I servicewitich belied reodei esi tetheCoutury in taking duced by the distress brought on it by the boMbard- ,poseession of Cersicaetithough unaccampeoied by any Meet. fle, did net condemn the bombardment as 'fereat military exertions. ' It' thel Right Hon. Gen a means of reducing tie town, but he did not think ; tleman's idea on this subject, that when a service it a foundation.on which to build a struaure of i was peculiarly painful, to the feelings of Offieeri, glory. On' these grounds, considering the question 1 they. ought not to be treated with se much :gratitude as entirely distind from the conduot.of his Majesty's I for -their meritorious execution of such a service, as' Ministers, he did not think the service deserving the I if the service had been of a less painful natures. was thanks of the House. To bestow such a reward olive introduced as a principle, it would be , produce where it was 'eot deserved was to under values and I tive,of injurious consequences. An Officer leas not to, &mettle the reward itself. ' It would have the effea I examine the nature ea the service entrusted to him ; of diminishing the estimation of it where it had, I his business was to exeeute it. The. Right Honour-- been already given, and to sink the ambition to f able Gentleman seemed desirous of withholding ap eeek /it in fature. He again lamented the merks.of eplatue from our Commanders in . the Expedition to exultation so improperly displayed, by way of een- I,Copenhagen, because , they had behaved with tem e-ast, he supposed, to the ateuel'itorrow thee pre- i• , per and moderation. if they had proceeded •initnee veiled. He also lamented, however high hisexte i d 'diately to batter the town—ifehey hid iehinit by,a sonel respect for these individuate, the geailf of the ,"military achievement, the Right Honotirohle Gen- ' Peerage to Lord Cathcart auciLerd Gambier. He e‘lemati's objections must have fallen to the ground. knew and lived in terms of ; intitnacy with bott, and ! --eForhis part, he conceived tint their conduct teas had a high esteem for their chardaers, both in their highly meritorious for iteaemper and moderation.— profession and out of it.. Lord Cathcart had served ', At the :same .tithe they bud taken care not - to meritoriously in the Artily everedoce ~ the American ; hazard the otije# they had in view. The. Right war; and Lord Gambier, though not, seiscouslantly t honourable Gentlemen appt;ared also , to think, employed in adive service at sea, had greeoyelistin- ! that nothing 'had been done by the - Navy, guished himself as a Captain in Lord Howe's eaten. and that - if the Thanks of the .House were voted Still he thought the services performed,by, them on s to the Army, at least theyeteght e not to be voted . this occesioe did not warrant flint exertion of the . to the Navy. Wild a single instance be found rerogative in their favour, and he highly Warned ! of . ', conjunet Expeaion, in which because one' ile itis Majesty.'s Ministers for advising their Sovereign ,:'scription of force did only all that it - could do, the to grant these honours, and for proposing .these I Thanks of Parliament we're withheld train it. I.?,eee Thanks. If any thing should be kept distinct, front when the ' Navy had only landed the troops in ' party feelings, it, was the granting of these naeeland er s gypt, .for hese:nee; in ewhich tibbough the :'.l ivy military rewards, without any other reotive than the . certainly made'' excellent arrangetneets. fir the die- Consideration of mere military merit. Would the embarkation of the Alloy, yet by the latter the honours hestowed on thAseOtlicers acquit the Noble . Victory was won, the Thanks of Parliament Lord of the,censure that would attach to the nature i were voted to both. He hoped the House would of the ExPedition ? e• Woeld it not rather be con-, make• no disticiaton between the sereieet. - He chided thee. ,thieve honours were not granted with a hoped the Housewould separate the preeent quese view - la - the service' of the : Country, but rather tion,frpm e the questiou of the policy of the Aiwa to strengthen and reward - party attachment ? Thin sure. He hoped the House would not refuse sort of grant was an instance of the wprst species their Thanks to the Officers • engaged in this of Ministerial• corruption, inasmuch as it went Expedition, because they ‘ had executed a painful to the destru&ion of that fund of hpnorary rewards, I and heart-breaking duty. He repeated, that it cer tainly was a painful and heart-breakine duty. He do Which the, poorest man in the country , if the case were properly ex pl a in e d to him, or even . had never contemplated the subject, either before or without .would any explanation, on the pure impulse of since the Expedition had taken erect,, but as a feeling, feel his interest more matertelly most painful duty. Still, - however, it'-was a. duty.. Volved and aWtet.t, than id the most wasteful ex- ' It h a d been 'performed with as little injury to the pencliture of the produce of the taxes.. A Pension t Power attacked as possible. The question was, frmiworthily baldived 'on one, :would remain a re- whether the House would refuse their approbation compenee of no loss value .for another ; but,a title to Officers who'hed reddered a most important ser of honour, or a vote.el thanks, would sick in va,ine, , vic e to the Nation,- by diminishing that force which, both as to this past and the future, upon every misa but for their exertions, would probably, • ere this, Implication flint aie tgratitiog. of either was subjected have been, joined with the Enemy in the Invasion to. The .House ikas now called upon by layishing o f this C oun t r y. . . . . , eseeards to cast a felse lustre on an ad . of doubtful Mr, TI ER NEY observed, that the only distina justice and policy ;it was hoped that this vote would grounda'which the Right Hoe. Gentleman had state hafei in egect, not unlike, in its principle, though - ed for voting the Thanks of ' the House td the Army optteefte in itloperatim, to those torfeitures of.hoe and Navy on this occasion were, that with him they uenr4e wh.leli e dp former, tunes, were devi.ied to cast had felt the.painfulness of .the duty they had to pare in additional horror on crienes. But the nature of form, ,and that they had ext , cuted that painful duty the stratagem would ho canvassed indexpoSed, tied with all possible moderattore : Were these to be the the public would Join hien in thinking suchelisttnc- grounds of Thanks 'anti: Peerageal Wes humahity lions a shame retherehae an honour. le woeldbe . so rare among our Cormnerelees that it was tuts to like the case of a worthy Barenet cSir Bro - oke Wet- ', be rewarded ? The Right Honourable Gentleman son) late a Member Of that Heine, who having to . had 'spoken with more edvantage' then the Noble go in the city pageant. ell .Lord , Mayor's' Day, and • Lord, because he had bed soniethiug to reply to. The being nsked what. he intended tp do with his wooden ' Noble Lord had etated a case with very little materiels', leg, answered with'great good humour, that he I and reatV oil thii 06:asion tiegavehiro the eractit which meant, to gild it; Big, said n the other, you must he had always given Ithn, of makieg as'nmelf out of nut think of, that, it would, make yog quitq s ridieu- a little as any man in that House: i The 'present Art lous by displeying.yoer. delea so curs pi ministration werepledged to do something-46w elthe 'lbis was. the case with his Majesty'e.ginisters.— , ordinary coarse. What - they had done was out of They were gilding their, wooden leg, ,eitd.exposiog it the ordinary course indeed.! They had attacked by to, public moekery, by endeavouring ' to .get a take surprise-.,seine say by treachery—the Danish Vieet, honottr. to themselves e and making, the Penh Coin- .in a manner which-he would' not now discuss. Of manders'their instrumeete, . The gereice performed .: this a& they were bound to make the. most. If they was not such as to-,tuerit the honour or, thp Altanks,; • had not fired' guns:And made Peers upon it, when and thqrefore,, he tiding on the saute principle on ' woe it likely that they would be able to fire guns and which he declined‘tnoving A Vote of Thanks for the , Male Peers ? They had beep laiish of hotfoots to ail capture of the Cape of,Goed Hope, protested against, exteto which mast give serious pain t- all who con themisapplication, °fa waisis aisted trust, which ought side* tile proper exercise of this - prerogative of Dever to be exercised without the greatest circuit).- rayallY as a delicate and important point. With 'speaton, add Which wouldebe. soon destroyed ilex- ,' oee'refleaing in the - Most remote ineimer •on ercisettinconsiderkteiy or. improperly. ~ , ~ -i those`hy ; whom the honours had hem obtained; . elfreßßeiND.observed, in ,addition;to.the.argu- he cOutended that the *hole history of the douiks ments that had been ,SO eblykurged by the , Right try.did not furnish. a single instance of honours :o 1-104,.,Gentieman, that by voting the Thanks of Par-, -obtained., Unit% dimmed, be .hoped they would 'lament to those Officers who had been engeged,in long edipy.therte, He was eenvitteed that the par the-Expedition to Copenhagen, the House would ties 'themselves must have heeu . surprised at the prejudge the general merits of. that measure. . di)tinctions,,which -they had received, more wipe- The C Hil NC $L LOB (if the. &WEI RQ(..I Eft paili . lhe gallant Admiral at the head of : the naval .• did not conceive that-, the House, by their Vote of dePartment of Eepedition. . What service had that nigitt, wouldedn the smiillt :degree, be ,pro-: hp performed' I He need, not sey, that he could eluded front judging on the police at thermeesure .have no motive for depreciating 0 0 nie'rit of An itself.. .He could - not but 'wish, . however, that- the , Otbcer whom lie highly ref ectodi ..11.0•44)1 1 ,ct Right Hon. Gentleman had ab*tai•6i4 from such ob . - was, there war;nothing _l4 the ,N a sky to do, except servations• on the Espi...ditinn, as skewed that his what . wopld, he catleci at a review , ---kecping thc mind was illQuenced oe I ite present .questinn by Lis' ,ground; or at alm , 4 , :,itig In•Yd l l—:it ll lig thenn , i' ,114 , opinion on !het whielewes to he disculteattt a f,ntire seeing, fair.pl4y, He wished lie ' (;Onid NT,: ai on period. Thweett these 'Observations lie would not this .subjeret to a moat Olen% Office! . (sir A. Wellip. ley), from whorls Ile 100KeU tuc MUM Serceei ta- the Country of , the most brain- doeription' 3 , lie was sure that the gallant 'Officer must have ,bo_n iaS , much surprised when he heard that Admiral Gambier was made a Peer as to hear himself et:- tolled for having athhieyed a vi4lory. There were but two thousand seven hundred rigular troops in Copenhagen, andas to the 'Militia of Zealand; they were something like what the lumber troopi of London fOrmerly were, not formed into regi ments, but attached Irregularly to the regiments of the line. If, indeed, the Danish 'force s had been considerable:, ; Would cur % troops have been allowed to land t' ,- ,itlient opposition Daring fhe Whole siege 'Of Copenhagen, no opportunity had offered for a single Officer to distinguish himself,. The Noble Lord himself could dwell only on the Wierit Of the artillery, a all -the merit was unquestidnahlY theirs. The bonthardment had been conduaed with great skill, and if the Thanks of the Home were to be'giveu ,at all, they ought to he giveri to the artil lery. With regard to the precedents adduced by the Right Hon. Gentleman, did he see no difference between thanking Admiral Cornwallis ." thr 'the ability, judgment,: and bravery, which, he had played in the presenceof a superior fleet of the Etiemy,'.' and thanking the Commanders of the Da. , nisi gxpedition_ for compelling. town to surrender when resistance e ta s o , o9vYess? • Had the enemy been in strong force- 7 hAd'they emit: alit and fought the:field,lie had no doubt that at tinit moment ha should have been supportiug the Vote of Thanks, to our Commanders instead of opposing . it. After al luding to former Votes of TbAnks; he observed, that even jilt _Gentlemen at iLloyd's 4ad'not. voted their, thanka. on this occasion. They had rejoiced that this s favourite of thcits had been appointed' Cap tain'•of the fleet, because froth their experience of him mc , they pet.ited that he would take care of trade ; :instead 4,f which he had been so much occupied in 'pelting stores into the ships, that he had, not been able to attend to any . Other objet. Had the Right Hen, getitlerrian h.•trd no complaints on the Subje4 of the il,jurios sustained by. our commerce ? Had he received ntili4 at the vessels eaptided in cOnsenuenee of this oeglea ? Never bad there been an y prditian 'which having succeeded in its first objeel, attended so little .to: any other. II: did not direa these observations go 11111011 apinst the gallant Admiral as against the Captain of his Fleas who, having formerly written letters to the Mayor of this and. to the Mayor of" the other place, might have been expeatxl at least to take care thin the trade of i the Country did not Sillier instead at being occupied in •.r,ins'ackioq o storel , .ouses. He complained of the • I'-ierage bestowed on Admiral, Galobit-r ; and, after alluding to the Voto cf Thanks, in respect to the former Elcpedition to Copenhagen, concluded by, ob&q.vipg, that if the pvesetli.Notion passed, Votes of Tit:n*4 woad on longer be. held in the high ~~sSiliaietieru fits which *they had hitherto been con. . . _ . . ,sidered. . . „ . 'The qIANCIILI,OR 'of the E XokILWJER and,Mr. Wit, tin AP. c . 4)l:iilled. , . 'l'be Gallery was then cleared. ' • • While stranger* Wire' excluded, we understand . that Sir FR PeN (7.1,,i i 3 VFt D FI"P SpOkti ;IZaiost the 111°- 411.0 n, and e.qtressed hi dOertnination not , to: allow th%. , .. Tliinks tit Parliament to be prostinited, without taking 'the sense of the House upon the question. On a division there appeared-- ' '• .:, For th,! Resolution • .. - - . 100 Aviost it , , 19 - - Majority. - , - • - - - -• —Bl The other Resolutions, thanking Admiral Gallij.)l4.S and the different Officers and Men employed on the service, were then agreed to without any observa tious. VINANCE COMMITTEF. . Me; c 44'6' "iAOR r of the Ek - CREQUER, in pursuance of his notice, •roomed fors the re-ap pointment of the Finance Committee. He expressed, the stiong sense winch he entertained of value of the services already rendered_ by that Committee, ty. the two Reports which they had Madc---the one relating to the Oftice of Paymaster of the Navy- r -- ! the other relating to the. Bank. With respect to the first ofthese Reports, it happened, thatio the princi pal Officer In that ()like, t hereon - , rnittcc'weo indebt ed for the chief stiggettions' in their Repirt. This. V43s a security that the Teplations which had beert made in consequence in that otico would be carried into effect With the utmost zeal - and ability. With the Bank ihe (the Chancellor ofthe Exchequel) had had a corresponden&, .which produced, an arrangement in which the Bank behaved with, all the hot:rainy by which they had ever beset) distinguished. This arrangement, "34 well as - the other;` rleithatild soon .lay befige: the House. it was :hiS intention to pro pose on this Committee the .same Ckentl:non that formed the last, with the c:icepfion of 0;le, Mr. Ry der, who wai not i,ow•a Men:ther. Alth:Pigh it was wobble that this Gentleman would snow be iv. , turned to Parliament, yet considering . the iwportaot public duties which he had to perform, it appeared to him advise:ll)le to relieve him trout this tatitioual pressurp. EJe proposed to substitute' &tr.' 9'. The Committee was then appouite.i, Conslsting of We same Mn:nbers as the last with the substitu tion of Mr. Ellis for'Mr. Rater. 'rho Reversionary C;rants Bill went through It, Committee, in which a'attirt oonversatieu took plaerg between All:. limouts, Nlr. WARD, and Mr. qao ltutt.—Tha Report way ordered to be recctived . to , - morrow. _ ' , - 0,114 . 1te Motion .or 111 CILANCELLOIt of tie EX. qtlLT:l,tot it ‘N - 4S Ordered, that the Chaplain Qt thy ti0'3,..i4 oi 'Commons should nreaeh o.Serent.in bafore tl4,ttou,se at St, Mar l laret's Church, Westminster, on SneurOity, the 3011 J ~f lanuary,--xliljocreeed, FROM TEE DUT4',II P4PEIiS. UTRECIIT, JAN. Naj-esty being dosirons to give still . farther vizour to the Itegulatit 4 ns resped ingiließidekade ofthe-British Islands, hath for th a t parpdse, p the hist.. expedited the following Cabinet Order to the Ministr:T of .Finorvs, %clic, is rendered responsible tOr its stria execution " All vssels„ withont exceptiln, which shall have .b.ti,e'vitited Eby an nslit,li• ship, which shall have witched at an Etyish port, or which shall have paid a duty ‘of-any' to the Engl;sh Goy ern. anent, shall he r:ylinied 114 English) property, rtnd-ift the case of Wing . A;ter , ...,lrds clipt it tea by our ships of war, or craizers, :,half be duclared good prizes." DECURB AGAINST. swEP.tgli coltMuliCE. tri ou!ocidelwo of our present relations with Swe-. ,~...~.